Research Articles
The Anatomy of Race: How a Scandal-Plagued Surgeon Shaped Victorian Science
Explore how Robert Knox's 'Moral Anatomy' theory influenced Victorian science and Charles Darwin's work on evolution and race.
The Hidden Blueprint: How a Single Idea Can Guide a Century of Science
Explore how reductionist philosophy shaped biological breakthroughs like the Meselson-Stahl experiment and continues to influence modern science.
The Invisible Drivers: How Beliefs, Preferences, and Constraints Shape Every Choice You Make
Explore the BPC model and discover how beliefs, preferences, and constraints influence human behavior through scientific research and experiments.
A Two-Ocean Bouillabaisse: When Science and Politics Collided Over a Sea-Level Canal
Explore the fascinating history of the proposed sea-level canal that threatened to mix Atlantic and Pacific marine ecosystems and sparked a scientific controversy.
The Molecular Swap: How a Simple Linker Replacement Revealed Evolution's Blueprint
Discover how swapping a flexible linker between enzyme complexes revealed hidden evolutionary relationships in cellular metabolism.
What is Innovation? New Lessons from Biology
Discover how biological innovation reveals fundamental principles about creativity, adaptation, and transformation in complex systems from cells to societies.
The Fishy Science of Life's Tough Choices: How a Guppy's Dilemma Built a Supermodel
Explore how Professor Robert J. Wootton's research on fish ecology revealed universal principles of life-history theory through the study of guppies and their evolutionary trade-offs.
Evolution is Everywhere: How a Simple Biological Idea Explains Our Entire World
Explore how evolutionary theory extends beyond biology to explain human behavior, culture, and society through engaging experiments and data visualizations.
The Chemical Computer: Programming Logic with Liquid Reactions
Explore how chemical systems can be programmed to perform computational tasks using embodied reaction logic, moving beyond traditional silicon computing.
Beyond Balance: How Life's Developmental Flow Shapes Evolution
Exploring homeorhesis as an alternative to homeostasis and its role in evolutionary biology through mathematical modeling and fossil record analysis.